Oh, boy. Here's video of Aliza Shvarts, the girl I just wrote about earlier today, who made an art project out of artificially inseminating herself as often as possible, and then -- somehow -- giving herself home abortions.
Well, here's Aliza ranting against the "institution", and the "establishment", the "patriarchal heteronormative"... and a lot of other crap. Try to figure out what kind of point she was trying to make, because I couldn't figure out what she was saying. It's the definition of talking and talking without saying a word.
Is she just the definiton of a spoiled rich brat wanting to feel important or what?!
Welcome to the modern feminist movement.
Hat Tip: American Digest
Update: Yale officials confirm that the art project is a hoax. The act of committing the hoax was the project...
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The what?... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Peter F. | April 17, 2008 4:37 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
The what?
1. Posted by Peter F. | April 17, 2008 4:37 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on April 17, 2008 16:37
2. Posted by Jayemay | April 17, 2008 4:39 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
I'm increasingly convinced this is just a stunt.
2. Posted by Jayemay | April 17, 2008 4:39 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on April 17, 2008 16:39
3. Posted by Son Of The Godfather | April 17, 2008 4:49 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
I'm increasingly convinced this is just a stunt.
I think you mispelled the last word there... ;)
3. Posted by Son Of The Godfather | April 17, 2008 4:49 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 17, 2008 16:49
4. Posted by Maggie | April 17, 2008 5:08 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Just imagine this as a mother,
or the leader of a country.
4. Posted by Maggie | April 17, 2008 5:08 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on April 17, 2008 17:08
5. Posted by Brahma | April 17, 2008 5:15 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
If it is a stunt, then it is effective, give her kudos for that. The problem in her reasoning is that she equates the fact that she has an internal space consuming personhood that holds opinions with the fact that nobody cares (or didn't until this effective marketing stunt), because the effect of speech on those who hear it is usually based on content, not packaging, present stunt notwithstanding. She holds the no doubt institutionally supported YouTube idea that "if I can publish, then I must be important", unfortunately everybody can publish. In her Lake Wobegon world, everybody, herself included, is above average and worthy of attention.
5. Posted by Brahma | April 17, 2008 5:15 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 17:15
6. Posted by Eric F | April 17, 2008 5:24 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Mentally ill.
6. Posted by Eric F | April 17, 2008 5:24 PM |
Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Posted on April 17, 2008 17:24
7. Posted by Scrapiron | April 17, 2008 5:38 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
I agree with Eric F. The only reason she's not locked up is the laws were changed by the liberals a few years ago to allow her to sign herself out of the mental facility as soon as she remembers her name. How many thousands of Americans have died at the hands of the mentally ill that should not be on the street?
7. Posted by Scrapiron | April 17, 2008 5:38 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 17:38
8. Posted by Knightbrigade | April 17, 2008 5:40 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
"artificially inseminating herself as often as possible, and then -- somehow -- giving herself home abortions."
HUH!!??? A turkey baster and a coat hanger!???
Mental illness indeed......
Don't most of these people do this in a park with a flock of pigeons around them?
There goes 5 minutes of my life I'm not getting back..
8. Posted by Knightbrigade | April 17, 2008 5:40 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 17:40
9. Posted by Peter F. | April 17, 2008 5:54 PM | Score: 2 (2 votes cast)
Shvarts.
Hmm, take out the 'v' and you have an accurate word to describe the woman and her "art": sharts.
9. Posted by Peter F. | April 17, 2008 5:54 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 17:54
10. Posted by Mitchell | April 17, 2008 6:11 PM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Bitch
10. Posted by Mitchell | April 17, 2008 6:11 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 18:11
11. Posted by Gizmo | April 17, 2008 7:01 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Hoax: http://www.yale.edu/opa/
11. Posted by Gizmo | April 17, 2008 7:01 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 19:01
12. Posted by SPQR | April 17, 2008 7:07 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Hoax and mentally ill.
12. Posted by SPQR | April 17, 2008 7:07 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 19:07
13. Posted by Peter F. | April 17, 2008 7:29 PM | Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Thanks for the link, Gizmo.
From Yale's official statement:
Had these acts been real, they would have violated basic ethical standards and raised serious mental and physical health concerns.
Dear Yalies, and this little stunt doesn't raise those same questions/cocncerns?
Kind of makes you wonder who's more nuts, Shvarts or the Yalie Admin....
13. Posted by Peter F. | April 17, 2008 7:29 PM |
Score: 4 (6 votes cast)
Posted on April 17, 2008 19:29
14. Posted by Baggi | April 17, 2008 9:10 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Video doesn't work for me.
14. Posted by Baggi | April 17, 2008 9:10 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 21:10
15. Posted by Jim Addison | April 17, 2008 9:55 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
They took down the vid of her rant, but revealed she is a "performance artist," and it was all part of the "art" she was "performing." There were NO self-inseminations, NO abortion pills, NO miscarriages in the bathtub, NO "art" of the results.
I don't know if it qualifies as any more of a "hoax" than the notion of "performance art" itself (although "stunt" seems to fit the bill nicely).
15. Posted by Jim Addison | April 17, 2008 9:55 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 21:55
16. Posted by Jo | April 17, 2008 10:32 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Yet another embarrassment for Yale.
Wow, these clowns really accept some impressive people, eh? lol.
16. Posted by Jo | April 17, 2008 10:32 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 22:32
17. Posted by macofromoc | April 17, 2008 10:57 PM | Score: 2 (4 votes cast)
Aliza Shvarts -- AKA the Mistake
Aparently able to dodge a hangar herself
17. Posted by macofromoc | April 17, 2008 10:57 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 22:57
18. Posted by Adrian Browne | April 17, 2008 11:05 PM | Score: -8 (10 votes cast)
Melanie Bowers says "Hi" to all you wizbanger!s.
ahh
18. Posted by Adrian Browne | April 17, 2008 11:05 PM |
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Posted on April 17, 2008 23:05
19. Posted by James Cloninger | April 18, 2008 12:00 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Try to figure out what kind of point she was trying to make, because I couldn't figure out what she was saying. It's the definition of talking and talking without saying a word.
Old Will could have answered that question easily:
"...it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
19. Posted by James Cloninger | April 18, 2008 12:00 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 00:00
20. Posted by James Cloninger | April 18, 2008 12:02 AM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Melanie Bowers says "Hi" to all you wizbanger!s.
Tell her to finish up her pudding cup and go the fuck to bed.
20. Posted by James Cloninger | April 18, 2008 12:02 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 00:02
21. Posted by Steephers | April 18, 2008 12:04 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Just goes to show you that people think that calling something "art" gives them license to do anything.
21. Posted by Steephers | April 18, 2008 12:04 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 00:04
22. Posted by jpm100 | April 18, 2008 6:21 AM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Sounds like a hoax to me. Art or not, the purpose is essentially the same as many hoaxes, to gain attention for herself by deceiving people.
A 'stunt' would be Britney giving a crotch shot. It would illicit a reaction without having to deceive people.
22. Posted by jpm100 | April 18, 2008 6:21 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 06:21
23. Posted by Jer | April 18, 2008 7:44 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
She also hasn't yet learned to stop digging when in over her head.
"But Shvarts stood by her project, calling the University's statement "ultimately inaccurate." "
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/24528
23. Posted by Jer | April 18, 2008 7:44 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 07:44
24. Posted by Grobianus | April 18, 2008 8:45 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Nothing like a series of frivolous abortions to make a point.
24. Posted by Grobianus | April 18, 2008 8:45 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 08:45
25. Posted by Mike | April 18, 2008 10:01 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
I find it interesting that all these big "controversial" art projects are -- almost without exception -- produced by elitist, over-educated liberals attempting to incense red-state, conservative Middle America, thus proving how backward and ignorant and "bitter" we are.
What I'd really like to see is something I proposed a long time ago to my friends -- someone pees in a jar, drops a photo of Martin Luther King in it, and then declares it art, thereby incensing elitist, over-educated liberals. What would happen to that "artist," compared to what will happen to Ms. Shvartz (which is absolutely nothing, save for perhaps an NEA endowment when she graduates). Now that would be a real eye-opening project.
25. Posted by Mike | April 18, 2008 10:01 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 10:01
26. Posted by Big Mo | April 18, 2008 10:53 AM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Yep, I was taken in by this hoax. But I stand by my original statemt made on Cassy's first post, because this is almost just as reprehensible. This girl should be kicked out of school and her credits cancelled.
26. Posted by Big Mo | April 18, 2008 10:53 AM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 10:53
27. Posted by wavemaker | April 18, 2008 2:07 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
This lady will end up arrested in front of the White House with a trunk full of fertilizer in her trunk.
27. Posted by wavemaker | April 18, 2008 2:07 PM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 14:07
28. Posted by Piso Mojado | April 18, 2008 2:41 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
What a twat. Just like Randi Rhodes.
28. Posted by Piso Mojado | April 18, 2008 2:41 PM |
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Posted on April 18, 2008 14:41